"It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination."

-- Tom Wolfe

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“We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.”
“Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.”

Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage
“You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.”
“Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no fifth destination.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (2012). “Michael Tolliver Lives: Tales of the City 7”, p.144, Random House
“I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.”
“It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the medium - arising out of cheaply-reprinted booklets of newspaper strips, just out to make a quick buck, followed by mostly-crappy original work. It took a while for really talented artists to move into the comic-book world from the newspapers. It really is strange that even TV commercials got respect before comics did. I have never been able to figure it out.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”

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